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How to Tell Better Stories with Stats

Have you ever found yourself looking at a box score after a game and thinking, “Is that it?” Sure, the numbers are there—points scored, rebounds, assists—but they don’t always capture the full picture of a game or a player’s journey. As broadcasters, it’s easy to fall into the trap of just reading off numbers, but…

Nicknames and First Names; How to Use Them

Dale Carnegie once wrote, “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” As sportscasters, we say names more than anything else throughout the course of our call and it begs the question – with all the emphasis on varying words to keep things interesting, does the same apply to nicknames and first…